#noble

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation? ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#believe #clearly #clemency #forgive #great

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#him #inferiority #man #nobler #others

It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form. ↗

— Paul Conrad

#art form #believe #form #i #i do

The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#aristocracy #art #august #civil #definite

The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#burning #came #cutting #down #dynasty

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child. ↗

— Charlotte Saunders Cushman

#character #child #enduring #grand #high

In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard. ↗

— Rocco DiSpirito

#cooks #fact #hard #i #like

You’re not quite the one because you don’t feel permanent. You’re lovely. You’re here. You’re soft and comfortable and I can curl up beside you and hey, at least neither of us are alone. You don’t feel like the start of something, you feel like the continuation of nothing. You’re not quite the one because we’re not even thinking about crazy concepts like the “one.” No one is meeting anyone’s parents. No one is going to be a plus-one at anyone’s friend’s weddings. No one is holding hands on the subway train. You’re not quite the one because you’re not meant to be the one. You’re a bookmark, a beautiful pause, a blinking light on hold at an office desk. ↗

— Karen Noble

#love #quite-the-one #beauty

The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans. ↗

— Howard Fineman

#even #good #good idea #idea #like